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Italian Cinema

By: Maggie Gunsberg

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Maggie Gunsberg examines popular genre cinema in Italy during the 1950s and 1960s, focusing on melodrama, commedia all'italiana, peplum, horror and the spaghetti western. These genres are explored from a gender standpoint which takes into account the historical and socio-economic context of cinematic production and consumption. An interdisciplinary feminist approach informed by current film theory and other perspectives (psychoanalytic, materialist, deconstructive), leads to the analysis of genre-specific representations of femininity and masculinity as constructed by the formal properties of film.

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240

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Palgrave Macmillan

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ISBN 10

0333751159

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9780333751152

Playing with Gender

The Comedies of Goldoni

By: Maggie Gunsberg

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Playing with Gender

The Comedies of Goldoni

By: Maggie Gunsberg

This work takes gender as its point of entry into the comedies of Carlo Goldoni (1707-93). The dramatization of femininity and masculinity is explored in conjunction with that of other social categories (class, the family, and age). The plays reinforce the patriarchal association of femininity with the body, with spectacle, and with theatricality, while the dramatic backdrop of Venice and carnival provides a context for the staging of issues relating to identity, disguise and fashion. In the plays, pretence and theatricality vie with bourgeois Enlightenment values of morality, honesty and respectability to produce dramatic tension with distinct gender implications.

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340

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Routledge

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1351196812

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9781351196819

Gender and the Italian Stage

From the Renaissance to the Present Day

By: Maggie Günsberg

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Gender and the Italian Stage

From the Renaissance to the Present Day

By: Maggie Günsberg

An exploration of the portrayal of gender on the Italian stage from the Renaissance to the present, in a social and theoretical context.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521590280

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9780521590280

The Epic Rhetoric of Tasso

Theory and Practice

By: Maggie Gunsberg

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The Epic Rhetoric of Tasso

Theory and Practice

By: Maggie Gunsberg

Maggie Gunsberg examines the ""poetica"" and ""poesia"" of Tasso in the context of the historical and cultural climate in which he lived. His epic theory is explored from the point of view of three rhetorical faculties current in 16th-century poetics: ""inventio"", ""dispositio"" and ""elocutio"". His discussion of ""dispositio"" reveals a fascinating similarity with ideas on art expressed by the Russian Formalists in the 1920s, a coincidence that can be attributed to the lasting influence of Aristotelian writings on plot. In her textual analysis of ""Gerusalemme liberata"", Dr. Gunsberg uses modern methodologies drawing on Freud, Lacan and the ideology of body language to develop new ways of reading the epic text. The two parts of this study, dealing with Tasso's theory and practice respectively, offer complementary aproaches that together illuminate his epic contribution.

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209

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Routledge

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135119917X

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9781351199179

Help Me Help My Teen

Supporting our teens through tough times

By: Maggie Dent

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Help Me Help My Teen

Supporting our teens through tough times

By: Maggie Dent

I love Maggie's style. Quite simply, when she talks, we should listen.' Hamish Blake 'A masterpiece ... this book is the answer we've been waiting for.' Dr Vanessa Lapointe Australia's favourite parenting expert on how to understand and help our teens so they can thrive. Adolescence has always been a time of huge transformation, but today's teens deal with challenges that parents may never have imagined. An increasingly digital world filled with social media, gaming and harmful content, along with changing cultural norms, has intensified the pressure to excel and 'fit in' - leading to heightened levels of stress, anxiety and depression. Maggie Dent, Australia's queen of common-sense parenting, believes that teens can handle these pressures with resilience and strength when they are supported by stable, loving connections with family, teachers and other caring adults. Drawing on up-to-date research, a survey of modern teens and her own experiences as a teacher, counsellor and mother, and her memories of being a teen, Maggie provides clear and compassionate 'what to do' advice for some of the most difficult, sensitive topics - such as technology use, sex, drugs and alcohol, dropped school grades, mental health and identity - and shows us how we can provide a safe and supportive environment for all our teens. Help Me Help My Teen is a reassuring, practical guide for parents to help teenagers navigate adolescence and grow into confident, capable adults.

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Macmillan Publishers Aus.

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1761562894

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9781761562891

Gender and the Italian Stage

From the Renaissance to the Present Day

By: Maggie Günsberg

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Gender and the Italian Stage

From the Renaissance to the Present Day

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An exploration of the portrayal of gender on the Italian stage from the Renaissance to the present, in a social and theoretical context.

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The Epic Rhetoric of Tasso

Theory and Practice

By: Maggie Gunsberg

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Theory and Practice

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Book's by Maggie Gunsberg

Italian Cinema

Italian Cinema

Playing with Gender

Playing with Gender

Gender and the Italian Stage

Gender and the Italian Stage

The Epic Rhetoric of Tasso

The Epic Rhetoric of Tasso

Help Me Help My Teen

Help Me Help My Teen

Gender and the Italian Stage

Gender and the Italian Stage

The Epic Rhetoric of Tasso

The Epic Rhetoric of Tasso

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